RE: CRTRPGSLQI says "specs out of order"

[Buck Calabro <Buck.Calabro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>Your statements are usually correct but
>this one is news to me.  When did RPG
>compilers start sorting specs?  As far
>as I know they don't.  The only
>thing that did was CRTRPTPGM.

Wow, did I mess that note up.  Yes of course, only auto report sorted the
specs in the right order.  I _should_ have said that modern RPG versions
disregard the spec in column 6, so this compiles:

C/copy qrpglesrc,stdhspec
d smallint        s              5i 0
c                   eval      smallint = 99999

There isn't any sorting happening; the H specs get copied in before the D
specs.  Sorry for that.

>Reeve's underlying problem is, I suspect,
>the P before the /COPY.

Exactly.  The SQL precompiler thinks that the P is out of sequence, but the
RPG compiler disregards the P because it's on a /COPY.

>Why do people do that?

Force of habit I would guess.  I was going to say that older (S/36) RPG
compilers insisted on it and there's a lot of S/36 code that's been
'converted' to S/38 and then to RPG IV.  I was going to say that, but in
lieu of previous comments I've made I'll shut up!

Regards to the antipodeans!
  --buck